Peak oil, supplies & prices – June 13
Aleklett in Australia
Unconventional sources promise rich natural gas harvest
Is it time to buy oil?
Rally in oil prices may be running on empty, but oh, what a ride!
Fossil Fuels
Conflict – June 13
‘We are fighting for our lives and our dignity’
Heinberg on resource conflicts and the Peru oil standoff
Fighting over oil and water (oil shale)
The coming U.S.-Saudi fight over “energy independence”
United States – June 13
Marathon Man: Henry Waxman and the cap-and-trade bill
FutureGen ‘clean coal’ plant gets federal backing
Jon Wellinghoff, Obama’s energy futurist
The penal state in an age of crisis
Does federal regulation of hydraulic fracturing make sense?
Jesse Jackson: US needs new industrial policy
Home: a film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Magnificent! From belugas in the Arctic to skyscrapers in Dubai. From glaciers in Himalayas to devastated Easter Island. The images of the Earth captured from above are breathtaking.
Peak oil, prices, and supplies – June 12
Klare: It’s Official — The Era of Cheap Oil Is Over
BP: The centre of gravity in the global energy market has changed and we need to wake up
Oil Heading to $40; Natural Gas Better Bet: Analyst
Deep thought – June 12
Jason Bradford: A Message to the Nearly Converted
Profiting from Scarcity
A Review of Neil Jackson’s Photo Essay “Conflict”
Book review: Energy Scenarios by David Holmgren
Now in book form, Future Scenarios provides one of the most succinct and lucid accounts of the possible paths that await us as we start the new era of energy descent.
ODAC Guest Commentary – 2009 BP Annual Statistical Review
BPs annual Statistical Review of World Energy for 2009, its 58th, was published this week, a collection of valuable statistics accompanied by press briefings and the regular anodyne platitude.
ODAC Newsletter – June 12
A weekly update from a UK perspective, including Guest Commentary.
Sacred Demise (review)
If you are familiar with author and ecopsychologist Carolyn Baker’s previous work, you know she makes no apologies for the doomer stance she developed since becoming aware of “the invasion and occupation of Iraq, Peak Oil, a fraudulent 2004 election, global warming, and at this writing, what appears to be full-blown economic meltdown.”
Peak oil notes – Jun 11
A weekly round-up including:
– Prices and production
– Gas prices
Rock vs. hard place vs. immovable object
Rock, meet hard place. Hard place, meet rock. Rock, over here is known as “the economy.” Hard place, on the other side, can be described as “our energy situation.” Because while green shoots might look awfully good to a lot of people who are desperate to have the economy go back to what it was, we should remind ourselves that “what it was” involved awfully high energy prices.
